Word: landaus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the British Parliament opened and argued, His Majesty the King-Emperor returned in triumph to London. Still wan and droop-shouldered, King George motored from Windsor to sooty Albert Hall, opposite Kensington Gardens. There state landaus and a squadron of gleaming, clanking life guards awaited him. Smiling happily, with a white tea rose on the lapel of his impeccable morning coat, he entered the first carriage with Queen Mary, regal as ever in a gold colored coat and fur-trimmed hat. Through Hyde Park, down Piccadilly the procession trotted, past cheering crowds...
Came two grave silk-hatted mummers who marched with thoroughgoing dignity. Impersonating not only the Prince but the entire Royal Family, they quitted the station and seated themselves in two wagons representing the imperial landaus. Ceremoniously they were driven to Buckingham Palace by exactly the same route which the royal party was to follow next...
Came the two royal landaus and Edward of Wales was whirled off through a drizzly rain and an ovation unprecedented even for him. On the balcony at Buckingham Palace his perennial "shyness" was again observed; many Britons would have pledged their hearts blood that his uneasy fussing with the busby was genuine nervousness...